The six-part Candle Cove, the first installment of Channel Zero, is based on an unnerving tale written by Kris Straub that gained notoriety online as a popular “creepypasta” (user-generated horror stories that are published and passed around the internet). Candle Cove centers on one man’s obsessive recollections of a mysterious children’s television program from the 1980s – and his ever-growing suspicions about the role it might have played in a series of nightmarish and deadly events from his childhood.

Macneill’s feature debut The Boy, for Chiller Films, premiered in competition at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival. It’s based on Macneill’s short film Henley, which screened as an official selection at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Macneill is repped by WME and The Gotham Group.

Nick Antosca (Hannibal, Friday the 13th, Teen Wolf) wrote the Channel Zero: Candle Cove pilot and will serve as executive producer alongside Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra). The second, yet-to-be announced six-episode season of Channel Zero will premiere on Syfy in 2017.